Unfiltered stories of Black resistance, erased heroes, and hidden truths. We connect the past to today’s fights so the next generation never has to ask “why didn’t they teach us this?”
For decades, the deaths of formerly enslaved people at the Devil’s Punchbowl were explained away as misfortune. The story suggested chaos after emancipation, people wandering into unsafe conditions, disease spreading naturally. No one was responsible.
That framing isn’t neutral. It shifts blame onto the dead and turns mass death into an unfortunate accident rather than the result of policy.
